"Hey Olivia, wait a minute, I want to ask you sothing," I called out, making her turn to in confusion.
"Hi." she said.
"Oli..." she said.
"What?" I asked confused.
"You can just call Oli. That's what my friends call ..." she mumbled while looking away a little.
Smiling, I nodded and asked, "So, Oli, I was thinking about posting that song from yesterday on a Tube channel I made. Is there a problem?"
"A Tube channel? What channel?" Hearing that I was going to post the song, instead of being sad, just as I imagined, she got excited.
Taking out my cell phone, I opened the newly created channel and showed it to her.
"I decided to make a channel to post the songs I'm going to make in the future. For now the only song I've made is Numb, but I intend to write others when I get inspiration," I explained.
"Woah!" Hearing my idea and seeing the channel logo ready, Oli was getting more and more excited. I wonder what she was imagining.
"Of course, you can post it! Send the link when you finish; I want to hear it again."
"Alright." I nodded and went back to my room, ready to begin my plans.
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Sitting on the couch excitedly, Olivia was looking at her cell phone while dragging her finger from top to bottom as if she was refreshing a page.
"When Noah told he was going to make a Tube channel, at first I was just surprised, but when I rembered how well he sang, that surprise turned into shock." the girl replied to the cara with a smile.
"Why shock? Because of how well he sang! I know it's very possible that he can make his channel go viral. Have you ever wondered what it's like to be the sister of a famous Tuber? Maybe he even knows my favorite makeup Tuber and will introduce to her in the future!" she answered excitedly as she began to imagine what it would be like in the future when Noah was famous.
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Arriving in my room, the first of my plans was to find a Krav Maga tutorial video. Each day that passed at school I felt like that group of idiots was getting closer and closer to doing sothing shit to , and with how busy I was during the week, I hadn't had any free ti to learn a fighting skill.
Finding a tutorial on Tube was easy, so the next few hours I spent imitating and practicing how the instructor taught in the videos.
[Requirent for Krav Maga Mastery Lv1:
Effect: Develops an improved understanding of Krav Maga, accelerating learning by 1% and promoting more efficient body adaptation by 1%. Additionally, improves technique retention and practical application during practice or combat. Gain a tangible advantage by absorbing the fundantal principles of Krav Maga.]
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[Krav Maga Mastery Lv2]
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[Krav Maga Mastery Lv3]
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[Krav Maga Mastery Lv4]
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[Krav Maga Mastery Lv5]
At this point I was completely exhausted. I had trained for 3 hours straight and if it weren't for my title, I think I would have stopped 40 minutes ago. But feeling the knowledge in my mind, I was very satisfied.
If before I was soone who just depended on a tal bar to feel safe while walking, now I knew much better how to use that tal bar to my advantage and a much better way to deal with other people.
I was still far from the level where I could fearlessly defend myself in a 1 on 3 fight, but in a 1 on 1 fight if I was against soone with no knowledge of trained fighting, I was absolutely sure of winning. With a tal bar and two unard people, my chance of winning was also very high.
Now however, based on how much I had sweated training, I had to take another shower. If I had known it would be so tiring to train in this, I would have given up my morning walk and just trained Krav Maga without stopping.
Looking at the scale, I had lost another 500g in this training, which brought to 139.8 kg! Even though I had been training for so long, it was understandable that I had only burned 500g, as normally in my training at night, the weight that shows on the scale is not only from the burning of my training, but also from the burning of everything else the body has done during the day.
These 500g are just 3 hours of training the 3 hours I would have burned naturally in that ti.
With a renewed mood after taking a shower, I turned on my computer and finally started my "advertising campaign". I didn't do it earlier because it was still very early in the morning and at that ti there wouldn't be anyone online to increase the chance of my video getting more views, but now was the right ti.
The first thing I did was post the video for the song Numb, and the only things I added to the video was to have the lyrics of the song appear on the screen with the logo of my artistic na in the background. I preferred to put the cover I made in this background too, but in the story I made, this cover will be made in a few hours by Jacob, a future fan, so I had to settle for the BV logo.
Just as I imagined, when I posted the video there was only 1 View, which was probably mine, so I ignored that and decided to prepare my Tweep to tag JacobTheWerewolf and the other profiles with thousands of followers. What I didn't know was that this 1 View wasn't mine, but rather that of an anxious girl in another room in the house.
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Olivia, who had been refreshing the Black Velvet channel page every few seconds, was excited when she saw the song finally appearing. Putting on her headphones, she was excited to finally be able to listen to this song again and was surprised that the quality of the song which was posted was better than when she had heard it yesterday! However, considering she only heard the music through the door, it would be difficult to make the music worse than how she heard it, but Olivia didn't even think about that and was left enjoying the music.
Considering an idea she had for a little, she decided to open InstaBram and posted a link to the song with the caption "My favorite song is out" in her stories.
With how popular she was at school, her followers had already surpassed a thousand, and all of these people were very engaged, so as soon as she posted the song in her stories, at least 30 people were curious enough imdiately to know what song it was and clicked to listen. When they saw that the song only had 1 View, they thought it would probably suck, but out of curiosity they still played the song and listened.
To their amazent, the music was incredible! Of course, so people just felt that the song was OK since they had wholeso families and couldn't relate to the story being sung in the lyrics, but those who had family issues, as soon as they heard the song for the first ti, they had to replay it again and again because everything the singer said in the song resonated with them!
Seeing that the singer's channel was new, so of these people decided to subscribe and waited to see what the channel owner's next publication would be, since with such a good first song, they thought that the second song couldn't be so bad.
When I was scheduling my Tweep, I was surprised by the notifications that arrived.
"User 'quiler'" just subscribed to your channel!"
"User 'shadowlord0475'" just subscribed to your channel!"
"User..."
'Did the algorithm recomnd my video?' It was the first thing I thought.
Opening the video, I saw that it already had 46 views! That may seem like a very low amount, but considering that I hadn't even started promoting the music, it was already 4.6% of my mission completed! So to contribute even more to the growth of my music, I imdiately Tweeped my Black Velvet account and marked all the profiles similar to Jacob's.
[Hi guys, I released my first song and it would be great to hear your opinion! This is the link: xxxxxx]
A few seconds after I posted the Tweep, so curious fans of the people I tagged saw that I had tagged these people trying to promote a song and soon ca to mock .
[This is shaful dude! Stop! Even if the song is good, I doubt anyone will pay attention to it the way you are doing this...]
[Do you want my artist to see your shitty music? Stop dreaming, when you have more followers than him I can think about giving your music a chance.]
[Stop marking...]
Among the comnts like this were so who were honestly trying to help , recomnding that I stop promoting my music like this, while others just wanted to insult ??to make themselves feel better.
I just ignored them both. Despite agreeing with the first type of person, I logged into my Jacob account, which currently had approximately 3,400 followers, which for an account that was only a week old was an astronomical number. I then waited for 4 minutes.
Four minutes after my post as Black Velvet was made, I posted it on my Jacob account.
[Although I don't really like the way you promoted your song @BlackVelvet, I can understand how soone who is just starting out on the internet feels lost without knowing how to promote their own art.
I still heard the song, and bro, what song is that? This is fire!
I'm now one of your subscribers and look forward to more music!
Ps. I liked the song so much that I decided I'm going to make so complintary art for its cover. If you like it, you can use it for free.]
[WTF, did you hear his music and like it Jacob?!]
[Just because his music is good he's going to get free art?!]
[I'm in line for my art and I'm only going to receive it in 1 week, and this dude got free art and won't even need to queue? I have to see if this song is that good.]
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Even though Jacob only had 3k followers, the amount of engagent he received was very high to the point that any art posted by the account would usually get between 5k and 10k likes, so that was the main source of publicity I was counting on for my song to reach 1k views in the first 24 hours.
Finally, the last thing I did was set an alarm on my cell phone to go off in 4 hours, which was the ti I would pretend Jacob took to draw the art for the song, and in the anti I would do other things.
My ti during the week was quite busy because I had to spend 7 hours at school every day, but on the weekends I had those 7 hours free, so I would make good use of it.
One skill that I knew would be extrely useful to would be computer programming.
To be honest, I had tried to learn it in my past life, but since I probably had no talent in it, the speed at which I learned was excruciatingly slow. I had tried for a week, dedicating myself as much as possible and I hadn't managed to understand anything, so after a while I had just given up.
But I knew that in the future a Skill like this would be one of the most useful for , both for practicality and for the money I could potentially get with it, not to ntion the security I could potentially guarantee for myself and the people I care about. So, I decided to start learning programming, and to my disappointnt, my talent at it in this life wasn't all that high either.
It took an hour of studying to finally unlock the skill.
[Programming Prowess Lv1:
Effect: Deepens understanding in programming, accelerating learning by 1% and facilitating more effective adaptation to new languages ??and concepts by 1%. Additionally, it improves algorithm retention and practical application during software developnt. Gain a tangible advantage by absorbing essential programming fundantals and honing your practical skills.]
When I unlocked this Skill, it was as if the programming concepts I had been having so much difficulty with were finally becoming slightly simpler for , probably because the advantage in absorbing the essential fundantals of programming and the speed at which I learned things had increased a little.
To raise the Skill to Lv 2 it only took 50 minutes. For Lv 3 it only took 48 minutes, and considering how the speed at which I learned was increasing, I was very excited.
I had spent a week studying this in my previous life to no avail, and now, what little I had learned was only a miniscule fraction as much as this Skill currently at Lv 3. I think it was because of my poor understanding that the Skill started so slowly at Lv 1, but I didn't mind that much. As long as my learning speed remained high, I was very satisfied.
In another 47 minutes, the Skill managed to reach Lv 4, giving enough experience to follow in the footsteps of most accomplished programrs and be able to make my first calculator alone without consulting anything on the internet. If I studied a little more, maybe I could make a simple ga, but that would have to be put aside for now, as now was the ti for to post the image that Jacob made for Black Velvet.
Looking at my Tweep as Black Velvet, I was surprised to see that Jacob wasn't the only person I had tagged who responded to . In fact, 2 other people I tagged also responded quite excitedly about my song. Before reading through these people's comnts, however, I made Jacob's post with the art I drew, which was a marionette doll that was being controlled by chains, but a padlock holding those chains had opened, causing the doll to fall and it finally began to loosen, coming out of the dark and into the light where it was more colorful. The art really looked beautiful, to the point that it would probably attract a lot of attention from anyone who saw it on Tube.
My biggest concern when making the art was the choice of colors. My focus was on using the contrast of two opposing colors using watercolor to attract even more attention from the public who would see this Thumbnail on the Tube page.
After posting this image, I went to see the comnts of the other influencers I tagged.
[Damn, this song... I have to admit, it made a small tear run down my eyes...] One of the people I tagged responded, making that person's followers curious to listen to my song.
Out of curiosity, I saw that my song on Tube already had 401 views, which was much more than I imagined it would have at that mont.
Confused, I looked in the comnts to see if anyone said how they had found the page.
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